Japan for the award of Iwao Hakamada, which is wrongfully held nearly 50 years and has been published last year, the biggest payment.
Japan awarded the wrongly convicted man who was on a death sentence for nearly half a century of compensation of 217 million yen ($ 1.44 million).
The legal team for Iwao Hakamada, published last year after the 1966 murder conviction was extinguished, said Tuesday that the payment of the fee ordered by the court had been the highest criminal fee awarded in Japan.
Former boxer, now 89 years old, received 12,500 yen ($ 83) for every day of 46 years he spent in custody, most of this at the death penalty. He was released in release last year During the four -time murder of his former employer and family from 1966.
After the tireless campaign of his sister and others, the Shizuoka District Court ruled that the police had been unauthorized by evidence and canceled Hakamada’s conviction.
He initially confessed to the crime, but withdrew his recognition during his first trial, claiming that he had been abused during 20 days of testing.
‘The World of Fantasy’
The legal team of Hakamade said that the money remains far from compensating the pain he had suffered. A prisoner with the longest maps has spent most of his time in solitary confinement.
Decades of custody – with the threat of execution, she has constantly appeared – she took a strong toll on the mental health of Hakamada, his lawyers said, describing him as “living in the fantasy world.”
Hakamada was the fifth prisoner of the death penalty assigned to re -re -release in Japanese post -war history. All four previous cases also resulted in liberation.
Japan is the only leading industrialized democracy except the United States that retains the death penalty, a policy that has wide public support.
